I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the king.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahA wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
Proverbs
WisdomFor since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.
Jeremiah
Major Prophets / JeremiahThen was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersLet not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThat they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal.
Joshua
History / JoshuaAnd she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law.
Ruth
HistoryAfterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.
Mark
GospelsRighteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonThese are the children of Abihail the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz;
1 Chronicles
HistoryThe sons of Kohath; Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,
1 Chronicles
HistoryThou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole stones: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD thy God:
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesWhile the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Genesis
Law / MosesBehold his bed, which is Solomon's; threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel.
Solomon's Song
Poetry / SolomonAnd the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
2 Kings
HistoryBut will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!
2 Chronicles
HistoryHow much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?
1 Samuel
History / SamuelI returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomAnd why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Proverbs
WisdomAnd when David enquired of the LORD, he said, Thou shalt not go up; but fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.